Montserrat Caballé: The Legendary Soprano (Opera Documentary)

[@skeeterradar]

no one could grab, hold, and sustain a note indefinitely like Montserrat, without losing any of its beauty of tone and brilliance.

[@Willzito]

Most beautiful voice and charisma ever

[@nancybraselman6745]

I hear Montsy and Freddie together and I just want to cry. Their voices are so beautiful, music runs through their bodies, they are music,.and their mutual love for one another is glaringly obvious.

[@flav2689]

”Unapproachable diva?” Who the hell said that? That’s ridiculous. Diva, yes - in a good way. Unapproachable? Never. She was always grateful and kind to her fans. She was a lovelh lady with a warm heart. And that’s not the only mistake in the video. Do better. But Montse - we love and miss you. Rest in peace❤️

[@LucieOgilvie]

There are idiots everywhere ..and here was one of them!

[@liguten]

Que Montserrat soit une légende de l'opéra n'est plus à prouver. Dans moins de dix ans elle sera reconnue comme la plus grande soprano du second XX7 siècle.

[@Sotzume]

Caballe was never unapproachable...she was so human.

[@roblessusan19]

Her smile and humor was very beautiful and warm. Such an underrated amazing woman!! R.I.P...

[@arnoldamaral7406]

She was not underrated. She was greatest soprano of her time. With an incredible repertoire etc. So much more diverse than leontyne Price and Dame Joan. 🇫🇷🍷💙 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@roblessusan19]

@@arnoldamaral7406 Sorry I think you are misunderstanding my comment..

[@islandbirdw]

She had no boundaries for joy in singing

[@islandbirdw]

She was an angel on earth. She now sings in heaven Freddie Mercury just loved her and her incredibly amazing voice. I smile thinking of the 2 of them singing together in heaven

[@themessenger4208]

Good, bad or indifferent...She was one of G-D's most infinitely and incredibly joyous gifts to us. She earned her success with pain, tears, and disappointments, but always with an the attitude of "Tell me I can't and I will show you I can". She was a very gracious lady and will be forever missed and loved by the many of us she never knew...

[@magdaschweitzer1472]

The incredible, inimitable La Superba!

[@hectorhouse1671]

Real Diva! Her Artistry was absolutely amazing.

[@ijaroldwalters2857]

What a beautiful person

[@tonosanchez2094]

La Superba, a legend!! R.I.P

[@joeygodin8861]

My favourite soprano!

[@Sobolady89]

I was watching a video of her teaching a master class. She kept trying to get a young lady to push the notes from her diaphragm and not her throat. She kept trying to get her to do it over and over and was so patient. She was so sweet.

[@astridgunkel2230]

FABULOUS.......MONTSERRAT!!!!!! 🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵🎶🎼🎵🎼🎵🎶💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜Love Montserrat so much!!!!!!What for a woman..........👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@angelafalsetta9489]

Montsy and Freddie are together and having the time of their lives!

[@vale86301]

Una meraviglia assoluta,con una voce strepitosa e penetrante,che resta nel cuore. Potente,anche nei suoi pianissimi unici e inimitabili. Poteva fare ogni cosa ,con quella voce .Bellissima e strepitosa Caballet .

[@seasonsvienna]

Wonderful voice . Words can not describe it !

[@msbadkittie]

i have always loved Maria Callas. but i’ll admit, i don’t know much about opera. i can’t believe i’ve only just discovered Monserrat Caballe. absolutely stunning! i have a lot of catching up to do.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

You won't be disappointed my friend. The greatest art form in the world. 🇷🇺🌍🌏🌎🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@tomtalker2000]

Indeed you do my friend indeed you do...!!! She was truly one of a kind.

[@AdrianaHernandez-cr6ko]

😅

[@AdrianaHernandez-cr6ko]

She, indeed, after Callas

[@davidmolina7543]

Good luck in your journey, discovering Caballe. I too, am a Maria Callas fan as well as a Caballe fan.

[@astridgunkel2230]

WORLDSTAR............Montserrat Caball'e 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 ❤ I adore her!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤

[@astridgunkel2230]

GÖTTIN of the Sopranomusic........allways!!!!!!And so lovley!!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🎼🎵🎶😘😘

[@katerinatretyakova4993]

Love Montserrat's voice, is like a balsam for the soul ❤ What a big, big honour was to be able to know her personally. Such a great human beeing❤ Such loss... And such a shame for Zaragoza to loose her Voice Competition. Happy, that it revives now at Gran Teatre del Liceu and Teatro Real Madrid!🎉🎉🎉

[@karlajensen3708]

I was so happy to see this. She is my absolute favorite singer of any genre. So talented, warm and stunningly beautiful. My only complaint with this document was that there were no singers talking about her. No Domingo, No Carerras, No Te Kanawa, No Cotrubas, Not even Marily Horne....I would have loved to hear more from people who actually sung with her. Yes, I know the host is a singer, but I meant the interviews. Oh, hearing this one guy call her "difficult" *eyeroll* everything else I've heard says she was the opposite. She was passionate about the music. She said herself, she was a servant to the composer. I don't believe for one second she was the difficult one.

[@geraldferguson3138]

A true gift from God: RIP

[@acrossthenorthernsea]

Thank you for this!

[@wotan10950]

I was only lucky enough to see her a few times onstage. Adriana Lecouvreur at the Met, and I said to myself, "I will never hear a more beautiful sound than this." And also scenes from The Ring at the New York Philharmonic, where she sang Brunnhilde. I asked to meet her, and waited patiently while she signed pictures of herself in beautiful gowns and jewels. When I reached her dressing table, she signed a picture......holding the head of John the Baptist!! I don''t know why she chose it, but I still have it framed on the wall.

[@goldeq8521]

Such great voice and beautiful soul.

[@道-p2e]

What a shining name, Wow... such a grand package to the world🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@elainebrito3500]

Montserrat es maravillosa, la más grande dela Opera, la última gran primadona.

[@garyfayman5976]

She is the reason I fell in love with opera.

[@Ruffiello]

Lucrezia Borgia didn't happen at the Metropolitan, it was a American Opera Society production.

[@davidmolina7543]

That’s what I was thinking.

[@clefnoteproductions6695]

​@davidmolina7543 yes at Carnegie Hall. Marilyn Horne was still singing both soprano and mezzo roles.

[@islandbirdw]

I can now see why Freddie was absolutely stunned by her. It’s was sad that she outlived him. She was La Superba! Thank you Montse for your absolute dedication to your career.

[@miekeregelink7301]

thank you for this wonderful documentary

[@LauraTenora]

17:20 Norma is a mezzo part? That's new to me! She did also sing Adalgisa, though, which is indeed considered a mezzo role, although nowadays it's often sung by a soprano. But then they are showing the cover of the 1973 RCA recording in which she sang the title role (which is definitely a soprano part!)

[@davidmolina7543]

I believe the doctor was confused Norma is a soprano part and Adalsia isA mezzo or a soprano part as well.

[@brucebrown3315]

The part was first sing by a soprano.

[@seropera]

Both roles were written for a soprano voice. However, because the role of Adalgisa delves into the mezzo soprano registre, it was taken over the years by mezzos with easy high notes.

[@clefnoteproductions6695]

​@@davidmolina7543 No actually Adalgisa is a soprano role. However it's usually sung by mezzos and many times parts of it are transposed to accommodate the mezzo

[@kenking7320]

She was fabulous. That is all. ❤️

[@Tamarindos9]

Montserrat is the patron saint of Catalonia, shared with Saint George. Saint Eulalia is the patron saint of Barcelona.

[@ahogbin2644]

One of the real post-war greats. The Lucrezia Borgia breakthrough though, replacing Horne, was in fact at Carnegie Hall in New York in concert and NOT The Met.

[@DeAudiofilosyLocos]

They said it correctly in the beggining

[@arnoldamaral7406]

This documentary sucks. And full of embellishments. It should be taken off KZbin. 🇫🇷🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@joseenriqueonaselfa2144]

This documentary is full of wrong information , better to watch the one Montserrat agreed to take part in, produced by Euroarts. She was not only an incredible artist, but a wonderful human being, I shall never forget how witty she was. I miss her very much.

[@carriemarti3282]

I agree. A very disjointed and disappointing documentary! LS Superba deserves much better than this bit of fluff!

[@funkforward]

Hacienda somos todos.

[@julierandall1327]

@@funkforward is

[@baritonebynight]

This is pretty much a junk channel.

[@evgeny9965]

Her debut in NY wasn’t at the Met but in Carnegie hall. A huge gaff in a documentary bio!!!!

[@VirginiaBaker-jz4uw]

Correct. Lots of errors in this presentation. Lucretia Borgia was performed at Carnegie Hall. I always knew who Monserrat was and thought she had a lovely voice, but unfortunately never got really interested in her until she was at the end of her career. She was a person i would have liked to have known.

[@mauricioszwerdszarf1455]

Hello. Thanks again for these videos. Maybe you could do one on Leontyne Price.

[@larranag]

Thank you Danielle de Niese, this is a beautiful piece.

[@sunah6897]

Perfect Awesome!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍👍

[@roblessusan19]

Awesome

[@jessicarinaldi7742]

Supersonic diva

[@joseangelpiraces9846]

Si en el cielo ay Ángeles, Monserrat Caballé con María Calas sin duda los tendrán enamorados, que dos prodigios de la naturaleza. ( irrepetibles )

[@crikitaftw]

Montserrat did not perform "Barcelona" alone at the Olympics opening ceremony in 1992. She performed a different song with José Carreras. Who made the research for this video?

[@laprimmadonna2341]

El timbre dulce de la Caballé, el legato impresionante entre otras cosas, la hacían y la hicieron única, una extraordinaria cantante, con un repertorio vasto, dueña de un gran oído musical, que le permitía cantar y guiar la orquesta! Era la reina del pianissimo. Exploró óperas con un gran ingenio y creatividad. Su técnica era pulida y acertada. Podía cantarlo todo, con excelencia, al estilo de las grandes cantantes españolas la Malibran, la Colbran, y del siglo XX María de los Ángeles y la inolvidable Elvira de Hidalgo. Siempre incluía en su repertorio la zarzuela. Era una artista total: cantante y actriz impresionante, bella y generosa, sus clases magistrales eran de primer nivel. Maravillosa la gran cantante española del siglo XX. POSDATA: en este documental hablan y hablan y no se molestaron en venir al Liceu y charlar con la gente que conoció a la gran Caballé. El Gran Teatre del Liceu siempre fue su casa. su hogar, Barcelona era su ciudad. Gracias.

[@ritawing1064]

For those fans of the great Catalan trio of Caballé, Carrreras and Pons, look.up Massenet's "Herodiade" from the Liceu. Everyone at the height of their powers!

[@eddiebuenaventure3666]

I was there and it was truly amazing. Herodiade should be performed more often. Problem is that it requires a cast similar to Don Carlo , so if you have such a cast available, you do Don Carlo

[@ritawing1064]

@@eddiebuenaventure3666 were you really? It was one of the first Liceu operas I was in. Great memories!

[@arnoldamaral7406]

@@ritawing1064 that's really impressive my friend. Thank you for your experience. 💙🇫🇷🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@ritawing1064]

@@arnoldamaral7406 yes, it was great! Cheers!

[@OperaJH]

I will go find the recording. Thank you!!

[@OperaJH]

I love the Andrea Chenier duet for the Met Opera Gala. Just so compelling

[@edwardinderrieden]

Her big break in NYC was with Lucrezia Borgia, replacing Marilyn Horne, BUT it was NOT at the Met. It was at Carnegie Hall.

[@magicmonkichi]

Did I hear that right, she replaced Marilyn Horne as Lucrezia?....I did not know Horne sang the title role of Lucrezia?

[@ronronizetti2534]

That's correct! - And when Horne heard her sing it, she decided she best leave the role alone! Which is why you never heard Marilyn sing it

[@arnoldamaral7406]

@@ronronizetti2534 later Marilyn Horne said that it was career suicide to follow our Monsey. 💙🇫🇷🍷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@rrgallo967]

Horne was a soprano till the mid 60s

[@tonio7367]

La grande Monserratt! RIP IN HEAVEN

[@kellybrown7671]

She WAS NOT an "unapproachable diva"! She was a funny and humble, charming and lovely person. NO Maria Callas nonsense!

[@zandzgallardo8404]

A prodigious virtuoso...

[@evgeny9965]

She sang over 5000 performances in her career .

[@kurtgarmaker3719]

5000????? You mean 500. If it's ,5000 her voice would have died early.

[@hjander]

Interesting

[@matthewtravisano1097]

Caballe’s big break in the U.S. was as Lucrezia Borgia at Carnegie Hall and *not* the Metropolitan Opera as this film says. She sang at the Met not long after.

[@MaríaAdrianaFragaEstévez]

Thank God there are people who still have a bit of memory...

[@Jgrayski]

Please do a perspective on soprano Alessandra Marc

[@MargueriteFairProductions]

It was as though the wind came out to play with her voice...

[@christineh.dietrich2929]

WOW!

[@larrywoods6318]

Does anyone know the song/aria she sang here in the Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony

[@emitch9213]

Caballe released her own documentary for facts to be accurate. SHE WAS NOT A MEZZO. The repertoires Caballe sang could not have been in her endless Diva roles if she were a mezzo! How embarrassing to reveal your Perspective which gathers your questionable knowledge of music and speaking of information not quite correct. The greatest soprano of the 20th century who carried a lead through that wonderful time 'The Golden Age of Opera.' We will never know a time as this ever and Montserrat Caballe will be listened to with fresh ears wondering who was this. RIP lovely Montserrat--you are missed. 🌹❤

[@davidmolina7543]

Touché

[@kurtgarmaker3719]

Norma is not a mezzo part with 15 high cs ??

[@michaelroberts6894]

Nobody today sings like she could and DID!

[@hardcoreboredent98]

Where can I get a soundtrack of the pieces used for this documentary?

[@miguelruiz3078]

You'll have to look for the Operas she recorded. Dunno for what label she worked, maybe Decca?

[@Jeanne90275]

Montserrat sang 'Lucretia Borgia' at Carnegie Hall, not the Met.

[@k-dramagoodmorningseoul]

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[@richardvergara]

Was she at the Met or Carnegie Hall for Lucrezia Borgia?

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Carnegie Hall my friend. Another mistake 🇫🇷🍷💙 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@PABLOGARCIA-gb5ih]

Subtítulos en español

[@unclelouie3828]

Her debut?? She replaced M. Horne in a Carnegie Hall performance "not" the Met. Opera. How? do you make this video and 'not' know the facts??

[@tosin.o]

O mio babbino caro

[@filippofontana-baritono1440]

Sooo many things wrong in this doc! So many! 😮

[@marcmitchel25]

What asinine comments a lovely documentary generates.

[@Lindow]

Norma a Mezzo part?!?

[@zauberfee2492]

Wäre eine deutsche Übersetzung möchlich.Danke🥴

[@roblessusan19]

Sir can you please invite me to your funeral?

[@JillyCookeMusic]

Underrated comment here.

[@MargueriteFairProductions]

Listening to them sing together...is proof of God as one within and through us...

[@arnoldamaral7406]

This is poorly done. I wish people would do their research before they produce a documentary at this level. The greatest opera star of her era OUR MONTSE 👑 after our Maya 👑.The story about Corelli is so not true. This is an outrage indeed. 🇫🇷💙 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@mariogomez-hv2ir]

After her death,catalonian goverments didn't do any tribute to commemorate her incredible gift ,just because she was not independentist.Poor ignorant people!

[@chivalrouslee]

Some inaccuracies along the documentary

[@ClaireSheridan-f8r]

joan sutherland? who was better

[@VirginiaBaker-jz4uw]

This is so poorly done. Having seen many films of her, where she speaks of what she feels, before I saw this, and have read the reviews of performances, she was very “human” warm Funny. a diva yes, often canceled for frivolous reasons, enjoyed life, came from poverty during the civil war in Spain, she lived a good life, very religious, various health problems, close family, grandparents took care of the kids, she wasn’t perfect but when she was “on” it was as near perfection as one could get. She could laugh at herself. Very much loved.

[@tolo2002]

Very poor documentary, with many mistakes and the words telling her story are rarely accompanied by the right images. Despite that, it’s always good go see and hear her.

[@mariogomez-hv2ir]

in my opinion her voice was nicer than LA DIVINA,less elegant,but warmer!

[@TheBeverly7]

Norma is not a mezzo soprano role!!!!!!

[@Sotzume]

I adore Caballe..but her faith in Careras was misplaced..he was horrible from the very beginning....never deserved what he got.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

Unconditional love don't judge something you know nothing about my friend. Jose Carreras would always say she was like a big sister to me and I will always listen to her when she scolded me. End of story 💙🍷🇫🇷 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@LyndaRae]

Carreras WAS wonderful in his youth. Unfortunately, he lost his voice early.

[@flav2689]

@@LyndaRae True.

[@clefnoteproductions6695]

Carreras should have stuck to the lyric repertoire and never took on roles in Carmen, Tosca, Andrea Chenier and all the other heavier repertoire. Traviata, Boheme, Rossini's Otello, Des Grieux of Massenet and other lyric parts suited his voice better

[@clefnoteproductions6695]

​@@LyndaRae I think Leukemia and the treatment is what took the final toll on his voice. That and the heavier repertoire didn't help

[@potusumanbibingka]

I consider her the Lauri-Volpi of sopranos. Though a lyrico-spinto soprano, like Lauri-Volpi, she can perform heavy roles.